Lightmatter is building AI photonic chips - potentially the next transistor - with performance 5x faster than an NVIDIA A100 unit on a large transformer model like BERT, while using about 15 percent of the energy.UK government green lights self-driving cars on motorways. Bloomberg gives us a quicktake on logistics going electric. More on Walmart's decision to move away from in store robot towers and focus on other fulfilment automation.Also, US companies investing heavily in robotics, sensors startups Aeva and Oculii release new data and raise $55m respectively, while the US Senate will deliberate the U.S. legislative proposal to allocate about $110 billion for basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China on May 12.AND IEEE just shared some great AI stories:Special Issue: Experts Cut Through AI HypeIn May's cover story, Microsoft's AI team argues that if AI systems could better understand human emotions, they might serve us better. And if AI systems are powered by their own approximations of emotions, things might get really interesting.Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer SaysMichael I. Jordan explains why today’s artificial-intelligence systems aren’t actually intelligent.Andrew Ng X-Rays the AI HypeAI pioneer says machine learning may work on test sets, but that’s a long way from real world use.THROWBACK THURSDAY: Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make MistakesComputers designed to make simple mistakes appear more human, he suggested.Deep Learning Isn't Deep Enough Unless It Copies From the BrainJeff Hawkins, the Palm Pilot's creator, thinks AI needs much more neuroscience in the mix.Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build NextThe Turing Award winner wants AI systems that can reason, plan, and imagine.
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Lightmatter is building AI photonic chips - potentially the next transistor - with performance 5x faster than an NVIDIA A100 unit on a large transformer model like BERT, while using about 15 percent of the energy.UK government green lights self-driving cars on motorways. Bloomberg gives us a quicktake on logistics going electric. More on Walmart's decision to move away from in store robot towers and focus on other fulfilment automation.Also, US companies investing heavily in robotics, sensors startups Aeva and Oculii release new data and raise $55m respectively, while the US Senate will deliberate the U.S. legislative proposal to allocate about $110 billion for basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China on May 12.AND IEEE just shared some great AI stories:Special Issue: Experts Cut Through AI HypeIn May's cover story, Microsoft's AI team argues that if AI systems could better understand human emotions, they might serve us better. And if AI systems are powered by their own approximations of emotions, things might get really interesting.Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer SaysMichael I. Jordan explains why today’s artificial-intelligence systems aren’t actually intelligent.Andrew Ng X-Rays the AI HypeAI pioneer says machine learning may work on test sets, but that’s a long way from real world use.THROWBACK THURSDAY: Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make MistakesComputers designed to make simple mistakes appear more human, he suggested.Deep Learning Isn't Deep Enough Unless It Copies From the BrainJeff Hawkins, the Palm Pilot's creator, thinks AI needs much more neuroscience in the mix.Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build NextThe Turing Award winner wants AI systems that can reason, plan, and imagine.